HMS Carlisle (1698)

HMS Carlisle was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, one of eight such ships authorised by the Navy Board on 24 December 1695 to be newly built (six by commercial contract and two in the Royal Dockyards); the others were the Hampshire, Dartmouth, Winchester, Salisbury, Worcester, Jersey and Tilbury. Construction of the Carlisle was awarded to Plymouth Dockyard, where she was designed and built by Master Shipwright Elias Waffe, and she was launched there on 16 May 1698.^[1][2] ]

History
England
Name	HMS Carlisle
Ordered	24 December 1695
Builder	Elias Waffe, Plymouth Dockyard
Launched	16 May 1698
Fate	Accidentally blown up, 19 September 1700
General characteristics [1][2]
Class & type	50-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen	709 8⁄94 bm
Length	132 ft (40.2 m) (on gundeck) 112 ft (34.1 m) (keel)
Beam	34 ft 6 in (10.5 m)
Depth of hold	13 ft 2 in (4.0 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Armament	50 guns of various weights of shot

It was accidentally blown up in the Downs on 19 September 1700, with the loss of 124 men - almost all aboard her - and there were just 8 survivors (although Captain Francis Dove survived as he was ashore at the time).^[1][3]